A group of strangers sign up to take a ride aboard a fake train headed to the fictional island of Hernmia. The catch? They all agree to enter the train not as themselves, but as carefully designed characters in a role-playing game. This premise, which kicks off Sunshine Express, proves a fertile allegory to examine the cogs of totalitarian systems and how authoritarianism often survives through not only shared complicity but a cruelly enforced sense of otherness.
By drinking from the fountains of Bong Joon-ho and Jafar Panahi, Amirali Navaee crafts a tense, deeply nuanced political thriller in this promising feature debut.
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